October 6, 2024 • 24 mins
Transforming Mental Well-Being: The Power of GAPS Diet, Detox Baths, and Self-Care Rituals
What other preparations did I make for my At-Home Retreat? From detox baths to, yep, enemas! Today, I’ll share.
Journey with me as I embark on a personal retreat of diet, detoxification and rejuvenation. I'll share why I'm starting with the GAPS Liquid Fast. Then I'll share the myriad of detox bath options that offer more than just relaxation—they’re essential for detoxifying, muscle relaxation, mineral replenishment, and soothing irritated skin.
And that's not all. I'll chat about why adding cleansing and coffee enemas to a detox protocol is essential to ensure proper and total detoxification.
I'll also share the benefits of morning sun time, and why meditation, breathwork, and castor oil packs are more than mere rituals; they are vital self-care practices for mental, physical, and spiritual detoxification.
Finally, at 55, looking back, it seems I’ve lived many lives. Lives filled with good times and bad and why I have found gratitude for all of them.
How about you? What times - be them good, bad, or ugly- can you find appreciation in? Appreciation in helping shape the person you are today.
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Sharise Parivz (00:01):
All right, good morning.
We are here.
I am sitting on my front patioand I thought I would do my
daily.
I don't know if it's going tobe daily, but today's update and
aha moment and I thought thiswould be a good time to do it.
It's early in the morning, myhusband is still sound asleep
(00:24):
and I am waiting for the sun torise.
And I thought what I would talkabout, because in the last
episode I talked about the dietand how I was preparing for my
liquid fast diet wise, but Ireally didn't talk to you about
how I'm preparing in other ways,and so I thought I'd do that
today.
So let me, before I do that,talk to you a little bit about
(00:47):
why I'm doing the liquid gapsfast and what my plan is from
there.
So sometimes the liquid gapsfast is wonderful because it
still is.
It gives a break to the gutright Gaps, the gut and
physiology syndrome or gut orpsychology syndrome.
(01:07):
And that was the diet that Iuse and also then became a
practitioner in, because Icouldn't believe the results
that my husband got, and I thinkI mentioned this when I decided
when I saw how well he wasgetting, I needed to know, not
just what to do but how and why.
And that's why I becamecertified as a practitioner,
(01:31):
mostly because I wanted tounderstand it for myself and
then later I decided to use itin my practice, which to kind of
round out my practice, asbecause I really believe that
mental health, which is reallywhat I work on it.
I work with leadership, withwomen, but also I work with
anxiety and depression and youknow, just like kind of crazy,
(01:54):
wonky thinking and beliefs andthings that don't serve us.
And and I realized through myown history as well as when
working with clients, thathonestly, as well as when
working with clients, thathonestly, what you eat is
foundational to your mentalhealth.
It really is.
And I have seen, just you know,miraculous recovery from severe
(02:16):
depression.
You know what you know,diagnoses and I'm using quotes
because, you know, I don't knowif I even necessarily believe in
any kind of diagnosis, even myown diagnosis that I had 20
years ago.
But you know, I just kind offeel that diagnosis is a way to
medicate.
We put people in a box and wemedicate them, because I just
(02:37):
seen diet for myself help healme 20 years ago and my clients
and other practitioners' clients, and it's just shocking what
food, the right food, nourishingthe brain, will do for your
mental state.
Okay, let's get off that soapboxfor a second, because I'll go
into that later, but that wasn'tthe plan for today, so let's
(03:00):
stick to the plan, cherise.
Okay.
So the plan is why GAPS liquidfast?
Let me go there first.
So GAPS liquid fast is highlynutritional because you're
having the meat stock.
You're not eating any solids,but you are having the meat
stock which is filled withwonderful amino acids and the
building blocks for your body,right?
(03:20):
You're doing green juices, soyou're getting minerals and
you're getting all of thevitamins and of so you're
getting minerals and you'regetting, you know, all of the
vitamins.
And of course, you're gettingcleansing materials through the
juicings, the greens andvegetable juicings and low sugar
vegetables.
So, like no carrots, mostlygreens, like lettuces Hi,
sweetheart, my kitty's out herewith me Lettuces, and you know
(03:49):
kitties out here with meLettuces and you know wheatgrass
and everything organic andanyway.
So just green juices, you know,and I do a variety of them.
I never stick to one type ofgreen juice because, just you
know, I mean with oxalates andso forth and so on.
So if I do spinach.
I'll maybe do spinach once ortwice a week.
I rotate, I rotate my greens.
So if I do broccoli spouts, youknow, I may do broccoli sprouts
one day and then spirulina thenext day, or barley grass
(04:12):
another day, and I just kind ofrotate through so that I'm not
loading my body up with any onetype of food.
Okay, so that's the reason forthe green juices.
And then, of course, the herbalteas are wonderful for
cleansing, wonderful for support, liver and kidney support, like
(04:35):
I talked to you about the otherlast episode.
But also, of course, ginger iswonderful because it's what's
called a prokinetic.
It gets things moving.
That's what prokinetic rightGets things moving, settles the
tummy, anyway.
So those are the reasons.
So it's highly nutritious, yeteasy on the body, because
(05:02):
sometimes the body just needs abreak, especially if you have
digestive issues like IBS orother things.
Sometimes the body, the gut,just needs a break, especially
if you have digestive issueslike IBS or other things.
Sometimes the body, the gut,just needs a break from
digestion.
So there's no reason to starve,though, you know, and there's
no reason to not nourish thebody and the cells and the
organs while also, at the sametime, letting them just rest a
bit.
And that is the purpose of theliquid fast rest a bit.
(05:27):
And that is the purpose of theliquid fast.
And I usually only, either formyself or for my clients, do a
liquid fast, maybe one to threedays.
Usually your body will let youknow when it's kind of like okay
, I'm ready to eat, and it's notjust a hunger pain, because
that does happen, but it's justlike you, just know you, just
you feel it, you feel like, oh,I'm losing my too much energy,
and you know, and I really amhungry and I really want this.
You know, and your body willtell you okay, we're done
(05:50):
cleansing, let's go ahead andmove forward and and, uh, let's
do some building now.
So once that happens which tome I've already pre-planned it I
will start on Monday to moveinto the gaps intro diet and
again, if you're not familiarwith the gaps, um, uh, that's
okay, you know I will youfurther on down the line, but
it's a slowing progression ofintroducing foods.
(06:12):
And now I'll start with themeat stock, with just the meats
and the cooked vegetables thatare in the meat stock, and then
I'll start adding in more of thefermented vegetables and not
just the brine and so forth andI'll get into that at a later
time, but anyway and then justmove through the stages of the
(06:35):
GAPS diet into full GAPS, whichis the last quote unquote stage,
I guess, and then I will moveback into eating my regular diet
, which is really basically anancestral diet.
It's not much different thanGAPS all the time, except I will
allow myself if grains everyone.
I'm not a big grain person, I'mjust not.
I'm not a big grain personanyway.
But when I do, then I will, ofcourse, do I follow the
(07:02):
nutrition nourishing traditions,okay, so that's just a little
brief thing of going back to whythe gaps fast, all right.
So what else do I do to preparefor my fast?
Oh, not just my, yeah, for myretreat, not just my fast, but
for my retreat.
So well, I make sure I have allmy detox baths because, again,
the goal for my retreat is tolose some weight, to detox, to
kind of get a mental andspiritual and emotional and
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physical refresher.
So if I'm going to detox andI'm going to start to cleanse
the body, I need to make surewhatever is getting cleansed
gets out of my body and doesn'tget redeposited in other areas,
right?
So like in deeper into theorgans or deeper in the tissues
in the body.
So I have my detox baths and Irotate those and some of the
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detox baths I do.
Or like I do a magnesium bath,which is wonderful for
supplementing with magnesium,but also for muscles and cramps
or just stress.
Right, I'll do sea salt, I'lldo seaweed for minerals and
iodine and so forth.
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I'll do I'm trying to think offthe top of my head what's all
on my shelf, because I have themall on my shelf.
I'll do clay baths, I'll doapple cider vinegar baths, I'll
even do I'll do borax baths.
I'll do that and I don't dothose all at once.
Again, I also rotate, you know,and depending on what I feel
like I need.
Like sometimes, if I take abath at night, I'll do a
(08:34):
magnesium to help me sleep, andso it just depends on what I
feel like.
I listen to my body and kind oflook at all my bags and go what
do I want to do today?
Right, if I feel like I havesome itching, I don't have a lot
of skin breakouts.
My husband does, so he'sactually cleansing through his
skin and so he'll do some bakingsoda baths and the baking soda
(08:58):
is very mild on the skin, butalso if you have a yeast flare
up, eczema, that type of thing,baking soda is wonderful, a
baking soda bath, because theskin, like your liver, like your
kidneys, like your lungs, right, these are all detox organs and
so you want to make sure you'reallowing them to detox as you
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detox.
Or, again, as I said, thethings that are getting pulled
out of your body.
If they have no place to go,they're just going to redeposit
somewhere else and it may godeeper and may be harder to pull
them out later.
So you want to make sure to dothat, to do your detox protocols
.
So detox bowels are one.
The other, of course, is makingsure your bowels are moving
(09:40):
regularly, and not just makingsure they move regularly, but
making sure you're reallycleansing your bowels out.
So I do enemas.
I do two types of enemas.
Well, actually, I do threetypes of enemas, not allas.
I do two types of enemas.
Well, actually, I do threetypes of enemas, not all the
time, but three types of enemas.
But typically I will do acleansing enema first and that's
just a water enema with bakingsoda and some salt, and that's
(10:03):
just to cleanse the bowel, right?
Because even if we do moveevery day, if our bowel
movements are kind of skinny orthey're not well formed or you
know, we may have what's calledimpaction and where the bowels
are kind of sticking to thewalls of the colon and large
intestine and so we want toflush all that out.
(10:23):
And so cleansing enema, we'lldo that.
Then, after I do a cleansingenema, I'll do a coffee enema,
and you may have heard of that.
It was pretty much made famousby the Gerson Protocol, which is
a cancer protocol.
But what's wonderful about thecoffee?
Not but, and what's wonderfulabout the coffee enema?
(10:43):
Like in the Gerson Protocol youdo, I think, almost like five
enemas a day.
In what I do in the GAPSprotocol, which is where I
learned this from, was you dothe cleansing enema and that
just cleanses the bowels.
And then you do the coffeeenema and what the coffee does
is it gets up into the bile,it'll get up into the liver and
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it will stimulate the bile.
So what it does is really helpsthe liver to flush out, and
that is the purpose of thecoffee enema.
And then if after I want to dothat, then I will sometimes do
an implant.
An implant enema isn'tsomething that you want to flush
out, so you'd use very little,and you, like, you, may want to
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implant with some, and it'ssomething you might keep in
overnight so you don't use a lotof water and and so forth.
I'm not going to go into allthe ratios and measurements and
all that, I'm just telling youwhat they are.
But you might do some herbs oryou might do some even things
that, um, some type of uh and uh, you know garlic or, or you
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know different kinds of herbs ordifferent kinds of um, if you
even a little bit of kefir andyou know you want to be uh and
that type of thing, so um, andof course it's very much diluted
with, uh, some water, and youjust keep that in overnight or,
and then you know, and then youlet it go the next day as normal
(12:14):
.
Anyway, so that's implants andthat's cleansing enemas and
coffee enemas, and again, we'reworking to keep the body
detoxing right.
We're working to get the toxinsout of the body and again,
these are just things that I'mdoing.
I'm not necessarilyrecommending that you do because
you know, unless you know howto do it.
If you know what I'm talkingabout, then of course, but if
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you don't, just you know, I willshare these things as I develop
this program, because I thinkthat's what I'm thinking.
That's what I'm doing here, Idon't know is developing a
program, but these are justthings that I'm doing.
I'm not recommending them foryou right now If that's
something you're used to doinguntil you know how to do it, and
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either finding a practitionerto help you learn how to do it,
if that's something thatinterests you and these are
things that I will also coverlater in time.
Just giving you an idea of whatI'm doing, okay, so, all that
being said, what else am Iadding into my what I it's
called my detox protocol?
Right, I have my diet, I havemy detox protocol.
It's what I'm doing right now.
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I'm sitting out in the morningand I'm going to get that
morning sun, I'm going tobreathe the morning air and I
and that is the first part of myday so I get up very early.
I get up at 4 am, so it's stilldark, so, unfortunately, the
first light in my eyes is notthe sun, but I make sure that by
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the time the sun is ready torise, I'm outside and I'm
getting my eyes into the sky andso it can soak up some of the
rays, or early morning rays,which is great, you know, and it
helps to balance the circadiansystem.
If you're having problemssleeping, getting early morning
sun, oh, it's going to help somuch because you are balancing
(14:04):
out the hormones that you knowyou're waking up, I'm going to
say waking up, quote, you know,not really waking up, but you're
waking up the serotonin in themorning which helps to produce
the melatonin at night, which iswhat you use, the hormone you
use to help you to sleep.
And then I will do some evening.
I'll sit out in the evening aswell to watch the sun go down,
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and I don't spend a lot of time,you know, but at least five, 10
minutes.
So that's another thing I addin.
I call that my sun time.
And then I'll do somesunbathing, actually getting out
in the sun for like 20 minutesand try to work up a little bit
of sweat, again, trying to gettoxins out of my body and
allowing the sun to.
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I won't do it in the heat ofthe day, but early morning, 10
am or late afternoon, after twolike 3, 4 pm, and that's a
wonderful way to get sun intoyour body and allow the building
for vitamin D.
Right, because, of course, wehave cholesterol and cholesterol
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, along with the sun, will helpthe body to produce vitamin D.
Okay, so you have to havecholesterol you got to have your
cholesterol in your diet inorder to create vitamin D for
your body to use.
So those are some of the things.
Of course, I talked aboutmeditation, which is more of a
well, it is a physicaldetoxification.
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Some of the poses and thingslike that really do help to
eliminate and to cleanse out theorgans.
Right, twisting motions, thingslike that, breathing the breath
work I do is detoxifying forthe lungs and also all of that
is very detoxifying for ourmental state and our spiritual
state as well.
Right, getting rid of thoughtsand beliefs and thoughts, or at
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least understanding them.
I don't say getting rid of them.
Sometimes we worry aboutgetting rid too much, but maybe
bringing them and allowing themand understanding them and
giving them a place andawareness is part of the way of
healing from whatever it is.
We don't always need to stick ona positivity sticker over our
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emotions.
Sometimes our emotions justreally just want to be heard and
once they're heard andunderstood and said, I see you,
I hear you, I acknowledge you.
Then they can kind of chill outa little bit and go oh, you see
me now.
Yeah, okay, you know, they'renot like the, you know the
little toddler running aroundsaying see me, see me, pay
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attention, pay attention,knocking over everything so that
they get your attention.
You know, once your emotionshave your attention and you're
going, oh yeah, I see you.
Hi, you know how are you today.
Or you know what do you have totell me today?
What's the message you have forme?
And when you acknowledge thoseparts of you, you know sometimes
that is a major step in healingis acknowledgement first
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acceptance.
Okay, I see what else.
So castor oil packs that's alsosomething that I will use, both
over my castor oil packs.
Basically it's castor oil,organic castor oil, always in a
glass bottle, preferably anamber glass bottle is where you
want to get your castor oil, andyou can place that over your
liver, place that over yourkidneys, place that if you've
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got menstrual cramps over yourlower abdomen.
You can place it over yourbreast.
You can place it over any sorearea on your body if you have
sore muscles or if you bangedyour elbow or whatever, and
castor oil really just helps tocirculate and helps circulation
and stimulation of the areas ofyour body.
So if you're wanting to detox,we could put castor oil over the
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liver, as I said, or thekidneys and so forth, and you
can do it overnight.
And a castor oil pack, ifyou're not aware of that, is
castor oil placed over the areathat you want to focus on, and
then some wool or cotton.
I actually use a it's calledfrom what is it?
Queen of Thrones, and it's apack that ties and that you can
(18:16):
find it on Amazon.
Queen of Thrones, and it's apack that ties and that you can
find it on Amazon.
Queen of Thrones.
And I put that it's a pack andit keeps the castor oil warm and
then, because it holds in yourown body heat as well as, keeps
the castor oil off your clothes,and I sleep with that on
overnight.
And I don't do it every nightsometimes.
(18:37):
I mean I may do it more oftenduring this retreat, but
typically I'll do it once a week, couple times a week, or if I
need it, and oh, there's myhusband and hi, baby, and I will
do that overnight.
And that is one other way thatI plan for detoxification.
(18:59):
And I think let's see.
Last but not least, one of theother things I do are my
supplements.
I don't do a lot of supplements.
I supplement maybe with herbsthat I got like I said, herbal
teas but I will do iodinepainting and put that on my body
.
Iodine is Lugol's iodine, whichis a wonderful supplement for
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iodine because most people areiodine deficient, and so iodine
painting is a safe way tosupplement with iodine along
with your seaweed baths.
And I think that is it.
Of course, I have my journal.
Oh, and I guess the last thingI will say is how to prepare is.
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I have my wise and wildwellness journal where I keep
track of all of this.
Sometimes it's hard to rememberwhat to keep track of, what you
did today or what you're goingto do tomorrow, whatever.
So my wellness journal isalways a daily journal where I
mark down what food or, in thiscase, during the liquid fast,
what liquids I've taken in, whatsupplements I've taken, what
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detox protocols I've done, andjust kind of keeping track of
how I feel, how I took care ofmyself spiritually, how I took
care of myself mentally.
What were some of the goodthings that happened, what am I
grateful for, what are some notso good things that happened and
how can I learn from them.
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And so those are the ways thatI am working through my retreat.
Anyway, so, real quickly, I'lltell you a little bit about an
aha moment that I had.
So yesterday I was doing mybreath work and as I was doing
my breath work, a lot ofthoughts and emotions came up,
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as is normal to do.
And one of the emotions thatcame up well, and I allowed them
to come, I guess I had a lot ofimages and visualizations of
the past and just kind of wentthrough my life, you know, from
even as a childhood torelationships I had to when my
(21:12):
children were young, todifferent stages of my life, and
I realized, my goodness, youknow, I lived so many lives.
You know I'm 55 years old and Ilived so many lives, and some
of those lives were good.
You know, I'm calling themlives because they were
different me's and all they weredifferent me's at different
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times in my life that allcreated, or together helped
create, who I am now.
And when I think about that, Ithink about how grateful I am
and that was a big aha howgrateful I am for all the lives
I've led, even the not so greattimes, even the times that I
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regret, even the times that werepainful, even the times that
were hurtful, even the sad times, even the lost times, even the
times of grief, even those times, because those times also
helped me to become who I amtoday.
I learned so many things how tobe resilient, how to be capable,
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how to love, how to know how tohave compassion and empathy for
others who went through or whoare going through things that I
went through and how I can help.
And so my big aha is saying andunderstanding and realizing how
thankful I am for all the livesthat I've lived.
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And so one of the things I didand maybe it's something you
might want to do is I wrote downsome of the times of my lives,
right, some of the lives thatyou've led, some of the lives
that I've led, I wrote down andyou can do that too and what are
the things that you aregrateful for in those times?
What are the things that maybewere painful, but later, as you
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look back on them, you realize,wow, I gained something from
that and what were the thingsthat you gained from that, and
then give gratitude for thosetimes.
Give gratitude for those stagesin your life, those lives that
you led, because they bring youwhere you are today, and that's
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a beautiful place, because ifyou're still here, you've got a
beautiful purpose and you may beliving your purpose.
You, you may be figuring outyour purpose, no matter what
stage of life you're in now.
Whatever life you're living now, it's a new time, it's a new
life, but all the past, good andbad, helped to get you here.
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Find gratitude for it, becausewe've all learned and gained
something from it.
All right, my husband issitting up at the upper patio,
so I'm going to run off and Iwill catch you later.
Bye-bye.
All right, good morning.
We are here.
I am sitting on my front patioand I thought I would do my
daily.
I don't know if it's going tobe daily, but today's update and
aha moment and I thought thiswould be a good time to do it.
It's early in the morning, myhusband is still sound asleep
(00:24):
and I am waiting for the sun torise.
And I thought what I would talkabout, because in the last
episode I talked about the dietand how I was preparing for my
liquid fast diet wise, but Ireally didn't talk to you about
how I'm preparing in other ways,and so I thought I'd do that
today.
So let me, before I do that,talk to you a little bit about
(00:47):
why I'm doing the liquid gapsfast and what my plan is from
there.
So sometimes the liquid gapsfast is wonderful because it
still is.
It gives a break to the gutright Gaps, the gut and
physiology syndrome or gut orpsychology syndrome.
(01:07):
And that was the diet that Iuse and also then became a
practitioner in, because Icouldn't believe the results
that my husband got, and I thinkI mentioned this when I decided
when I saw how well he wasgetting, I needed to know, not
just what to do but how and why.
And that's why I becamecertified as a practitioner,
(01:31):
mostly because I wanted tounderstand it for myself and
then later I decided to use itin my practice, which to kind of
round out my practice, asbecause I really believe that
mental health, which is reallywhat I work on it.
I work with leadership, withwomen, but also I work with
anxiety and depression and youknow, just like kind of crazy,
(01:54):
wonky thinking and beliefs andthings that don't serve us.
And and I realized through myown history as well as when
working with clients, thathonestly, as well as when
working with clients, thathonestly, what you eat is
foundational to your mentalhealth.
It really is.
And I have seen, just you know,miraculous recovery from severe
(02:16):
depression.
You know what you know,diagnoses and I'm using quotes
because, you know, I don't knowif I even necessarily believe in
any kind of diagnosis, even myown diagnosis that I had 20
years ago.
But you know, I just kind offeel that diagnosis is a way to
medicate.
We put people in a box and wemedicate them, because I just
(02:37):
seen diet for myself help healme 20 years ago and my clients
and other practitioners' clients, and it's just shocking what
food, the right food, nourishingthe brain, will do for your
mental state.
Okay, let's get off that soapboxfor a second, because I'll go
into that later, but that wasn'tthe plan for today, so let's
(03:00):
stick to the plan, cherise.
Okay.
So the plan is why GAPS liquidfast?
Let me go there first.
So GAPS liquid fast is highlynutritional because you're
having the meat stock.
You're not eating any solids,but you are having the meat
stock which is filled withwonderful amino acids and the
building blocks for your body,right?
(03:20):
You're doing green juices, soyou're getting minerals and
you're getting all of thevitamins and of so you're
getting minerals and you'regetting, you know, all of the
vitamins.
And of course, you're gettingcleansing materials through the
juicings, the greens andvegetable juicings and low sugar
vegetables.
So, like no carrots, mostlygreens, like lettuces Hi,
sweetheart, my kitty's out herewith me Lettuces, and you know
(03:49):
kitties out here with meLettuces and you know wheatgrass
and everything organic andanyway.
So just green juices, you know,and I do a variety of them.
I never stick to one type ofgreen juice because, just you
know, I mean with oxalates andso forth and so on.
So if I do spinach.
I'll maybe do spinach once ortwice a week.
I rotate, I rotate my greens.
So if I do broccoli spouts, youknow, I may do broccoli sprouts
one day and then spirulina thenext day, or barley grass
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another day, and I just kind ofrotate through so that I'm not
loading my body up with any onetype of food.
Okay, so that's the reason forthe green juices.
And then, of course, the herbalteas are wonderful for
cleansing, wonderful for support, liver and kidney support, like
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I talked to you about the otherlast episode.
But also, of course, ginger iswonderful because it's what's
called a prokinetic.
It gets things moving.
That's what prokinetic rightGets things moving, settles the
tummy, anyway.
So those are the reasons.
So it's highly nutritious, yeteasy on the body, because
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sometimes the body just needs abreak, especially if you have
digestive issues like IBS orother things.
Sometimes the body, the gut,just needs a break, especially
if you have digestive issueslike IBS or other things.
Sometimes the body, the gut,just needs a break from
digestion.
So there's no reason to starve,though, you know, and there's
no reason to not nourish thebody and the cells and the
organs while also, at the sametime, letting them just rest a
bit.
And that is the purpose of theliquid fast rest a bit.
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And that is the purpose of theliquid fast.
And I usually only, either formyself or for my clients, do a
liquid fast, maybe one to threedays.
Usually your body will let youknow when it's kind of like okay
, I'm ready to eat, and it's notjust a hunger pain, because
that does happen, but it's justlike you, just know you, just
you feel it, you feel like, oh,I'm losing my too much energy,
and you know, and I really amhungry and I really want this.
You know, and your body willtell you okay, we're done
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cleansing, let's go ahead andmove forward and and, uh, let's
do some building now.
So once that happens which tome I've already pre-planned it I
will start on Monday to moveinto the gaps intro diet and
again, if you're not familiarwith the gaps, um, uh, that's
okay, you know I will youfurther on down the line, but
it's a slowing progression ofintroducing foods.
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And now I'll start with themeat stock, with just the meats
and the cooked vegetables thatare in the meat stock, and then
I'll start adding in more of thefermented vegetables and not
just the brine and so forth andI'll get into that at a later
time, but anyway and then justmove through the stages of the
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GAPS diet into full GAPS, whichis the last quote unquote stage,
I guess, and then I will moveback into eating my regular diet
, which is really basically anancestral diet.
It's not much different thanGAPS all the time, except I will
allow myself if grains everyone.
I'm not a big grain person, I'mjust not.
I'm not a big grain personanyway.
But when I do, then I will, ofcourse, do I follow the
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nutrition nourishing traditions,okay, so that's just a little
brief thing of going back to whythe gaps fast, all right.
So what else do I do to preparefor my fast?
Oh, not just my, yeah, for myretreat, not just my fast, but
for my retreat.
So well, I make sure I have allmy detox baths because, again,
the goal for my retreat is tolose some weight, to detox, to
kind of get a mental andspiritual and emotional and
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physical refresher.
So if I'm going to detox andI'm going to start to cleanse
the body, I need to make surewhatever is getting cleansed
gets out of my body and doesn'tget redeposited in other areas,
right?
So like in deeper into theorgans or deeper in the tissues
in the body.
So I have my detox baths and Irotate those and some of the
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detox baths I do.
Or like I do a magnesium bath,which is wonderful for
supplementing with magnesium,but also for muscles and cramps
or just stress.
Right, I'll do sea salt, I'lldo seaweed for minerals and
iodine and so forth.
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I'll do I'm trying to think offthe top of my head what's all
on my shelf, because I have themall on my shelf.
I'll do clay baths, I'll doapple cider vinegar baths, I'll
even do I'll do borax baths.
I'll do that and I don't dothose all at once.
Again, I also rotate, you know,and depending on what I feel
like I need.
Like sometimes, if I take abath at night, I'll do a
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magnesium to help me sleep, andso it just depends on what I
feel like.
I listen to my body and kind oflook at all my bags and go what
do I want to do today?
Right, if I feel like I havesome itching, I don't have a lot
of skin breakouts.
My husband does, so he'sactually cleansing through his
skin and so he'll do some bakingsoda baths and the baking soda
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is very mild on the skin, butalso if you have a yeast flare
up, eczema, that type of thing,baking soda is wonderful, a
baking soda bath, because theskin, like your liver, like your
kidneys, like your lungs, right, these are all detox organs and
so you want to make sure you'reallowing them to detox as you
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detox.
Or, again, as I said, thethings that are getting pulled
out of your body.
If they have no place to go,they're just going to redeposit
somewhere else and it may godeeper and may be harder to pull
them out later.
So you want to make sure to dothat, to do your detox protocols
.
So detox bowels are one.
The other, of course, is makingsure your bowels are moving
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regularly, and not just makingsure they move regularly, but
making sure you're reallycleansing your bowels out.
So I do enemas.
I do two types of enemas.
Well, actually, I do threetypes of enemas, not allas.
I do two types of enemas.
Well, actually, I do threetypes of enemas, not all the
time, but three types of enemas.
But typically I will do acleansing enema first and that's
just a water enema with bakingsoda and some salt, and that's
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just to cleanse the bowel, right?
Because even if we do moveevery day, if our bowel
movements are kind of skinny orthey're not well formed or you
know, we may have what's calledimpaction and where the bowels
are kind of sticking to thewalls of the colon and large
intestine and so we want toflush all that out.
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And so cleansing enema, we'lldo that.
Then, after I do a cleansingenema, I'll do a coffee enema,
and you may have heard of that.
It was pretty much made famousby the Gerson Protocol, which is
a cancer protocol.
But what's wonderful about thecoffee?
Not but, and what's wonderfulabout the coffee enema?
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Like in the Gerson Protocol youdo, I think, almost like five
enemas a day.
In what I do in the GAPSprotocol, which is where I
learned this from, was you dothe cleansing enema and that
just cleanses the bowels.
And then you do the coffeeenema and what the coffee does
is it gets up into the bile,it'll get up into the liver and
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it will stimulate the bile.
So what it does is really helpsthe liver to flush out, and
that is the purpose of thecoffee enema.
And then if after I want to dothat, then I will sometimes do
an implant.
An implant enema isn'tsomething that you want to flush
out, so you'd use very little,and you, like, you, may want to
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implant with some, and it'ssomething you might keep in
overnight so you don't use a lotof water and and so forth.
I'm not going to go into allthe ratios and measurements and
all that, I'm just telling youwhat they are.
But you might do some herbs oryou might do some even things
that, um, some type of uh and uh, you know garlic or, or you
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know different kinds of herbs ordifferent kinds of um, if you
even a little bit of kefir andyou know you want to be uh and
that type of thing, so um, andof course it's very much diluted
with, uh, some water, and youjust keep that in overnight or,
and then you know, and then youlet it go the next day as normal
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.
Anyway, so that's implants andthat's cleansing enemas and
coffee enemas, and again, we'reworking to keep the body
detoxing right.
We're working to get the toxinsout of the body and again,
these are just things that I'mdoing.
I'm not necessarilyrecommending that you do because
you know, unless you know howto do it.
If you know what I'm talkingabout, then of course, but if
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you don't, just you know, I willshare these things as I develop
this program, because I thinkthat's what I'm thinking.
That's what I'm doing here, Idon't know is developing a
program, but these are justthings that I'm doing.
I'm not recommending them foryou right now If that's
something you're used to doinguntil you know how to do it, and
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either finding a practitionerto help you learn how to do it,
if that's something thatinterests you and these are
things that I will also coverlater in time.
Just giving you an idea of whatI'm doing, okay, so, all that
being said, what else am Iadding into my what I it's
called my detox protocol?
Right, I have my diet, I havemy detox protocol.
It's what I'm doing right now.
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I'm sitting out in the morningand I'm going to get that
morning sun, I'm going tobreathe the morning air and I
and that is the first part of myday so I get up very early.
I get up at 4 am, so it's stilldark, so, unfortunately, the
first light in my eyes is notthe sun, but I make sure that by
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the time the sun is ready torise, I'm outside and I'm
getting my eyes into the sky andso it can soak up some of the
rays, or early morning rays,which is great, you know, and it
helps to balance the circadiansystem.
If you're having problemssleeping, getting early morning
sun, oh, it's going to help somuch because you are balancing
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out the hormones that you knowyou're waking up, I'm going to
say waking up, quote, you know,not really waking up, but you're
waking up the serotonin in themorning which helps to produce
the melatonin at night, which iswhat you use, the hormone you
use to help you to sleep.
And then I will do some evening.
I'll sit out in the evening aswell to watch the sun go down,
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and I don't spend a lot of time,you know, but at least five, 10
minutes.
So that's another thing I addin.
I call that my sun time.
And then I'll do somesunbathing, actually getting out
in the sun for like 20 minutesand try to work up a little bit
of sweat, again, trying to gettoxins out of my body and
allowing the sun to.
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I won't do it in the heat ofthe day, but early morning, 10
am or late afternoon, after twolike 3, 4 pm, and that's a
wonderful way to get sun intoyour body and allow the building
for vitamin D.
Right, because, of course, wehave cholesterol and cholesterol
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, along with the sun, will helpthe body to produce vitamin D.
Okay, so you have to havecholesterol you got to have your
cholesterol in your diet inorder to create vitamin D for
your body to use.
So those are some of the things.
Of course, I talked aboutmeditation, which is more of a
well, it is a physicaldetoxification.
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Some of the poses and thingslike that really do help to
eliminate and to cleanse out theorgans.
Right, twisting motions, thingslike that, breathing the breath
work I do is detoxifying forthe lungs and also all of that
is very detoxifying for ourmental state and our spiritual
state as well.
Right, getting rid of thoughtsand beliefs and thoughts, or at
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least understanding them.
I don't say getting rid of them.
Sometimes we worry aboutgetting rid too much, but maybe
bringing them and allowing themand understanding them and
giving them a place andawareness is part of the way of
healing from whatever it is.
We don't always need to stick ona positivity sticker over our
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emotions.
Sometimes our emotions justreally just want to be heard and
once they're heard andunderstood and said, I see you,
I hear you, I acknowledge you.
Then they can kind of chill outa little bit and go oh, you see
me now.
Yeah, okay, you know, they'renot like the, you know the
little toddler running aroundsaying see me, see me, pay
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attention, pay attention,knocking over everything so that
they get your attention.
You know, once your emotionshave your attention and you're
going, oh yeah, I see you.
Hi, you know how are you today.
Or you know what do you have totell me today?
What's the message you have forme?
And when you acknowledge thoseparts of you, you know sometimes
that is a major step in healingis acknowledgement first
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acceptance.
Okay, I see what else.
So castor oil packs that's alsosomething that I will use, both
over my castor oil packs.
Basically it's castor oil,organic castor oil, always in a
glass bottle, preferably anamber glass bottle is where you
want to get your castor oil, andyou can place that over your
liver, place that over yourkidneys, place that if you've
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got menstrual cramps over yourlower abdomen.
You can place it over yourbreast.
You can place it over any sorearea on your body if you have
sore muscles or if you bangedyour elbow or whatever, and
castor oil really just helps tocirculate and helps circulation
and stimulation of the areas ofyour body.
So if you're wanting to detox,we could put castor oil over the
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liver, as I said, or thekidneys and so forth, and you
can do it overnight.
And a castor oil pack, ifyou're not aware of that, is
castor oil placed over the areathat you want to focus on, and
then some wool or cotton.
I actually use a it's calledfrom what is it?
Queen of Thrones, and it's apack that ties and that you can
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find it on Amazon.
Queen of Thrones, and it's apack that ties and that you can
find it on Amazon.
Queen of Thrones.
And I put that it's a pack andit keeps the castor oil warm and
then, because it holds in yourown body heat as well as, keeps
the castor oil off your clothes,and I sleep with that on
overnight.
And I don't do it every nightsometimes.
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I mean I may do it more oftenduring this retreat, but
typically I'll do it once a week, couple times a week, or if I
need it, and oh, there's myhusband and hi, baby, and I will
do that overnight.
And that is one other way thatI plan for detoxification.
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And I think let's see.
Last but not least, one of theother things I do are my
supplements.
I don't do a lot of supplements.
I supplement maybe with herbsthat I got like I said, herbal
teas but I will do iodinepainting and put that on my body
.
Iodine is Lugol's iodine, whichis a wonderful supplement for
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iodine because most people areiodine deficient, and so iodine
painting is a safe way tosupplement with iodine along
with your seaweed baths.
And I think that is it.
Of course, I have my journal.
Oh, and I guess the last thingI will say is how to prepare is.
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I have my wise and wildwellness journal where I keep
track of all of this.
Sometimes it's hard to rememberwhat to keep track of, what you
did today or what you're goingto do tomorrow, whatever.
So my wellness journal isalways a daily journal where I
mark down what food or, in thiscase, during the liquid fast,
what liquids I've taken in, whatsupplements I've taken, what
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detox protocols I've done, andjust kind of keeping track of
how I feel, how I took care ofmyself spiritually, how I took
care of myself mentally.
What were some of the goodthings that happened, what am I
grateful for, what are some notso good things that happened and
how can I learn from them.
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And so those are the ways thatI am working through my retreat.
Anyway, so, real quickly, I'lltell you a little bit about an
aha moment that I had.
So yesterday I was doing mybreath work and as I was doing
my breath work, a lot ofthoughts and emotions came up,
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as is normal to do.
And one of the emotions thatcame up well, and I allowed them
to come, I guess I had a lot ofimages and visualizations of
the past and just kind of wentthrough my life, you know, from
even as a childhood torelationships I had to when my
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children were young, todifferent stages of my life, and
I realized, my goodness, youknow, I lived so many lives.
You know I'm 55 years old and Ilived so many lives, and some
of those lives were good.
You know, I'm calling themlives because they were
different me's and all they weredifferent me's at different
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times in my life that allcreated, or together helped
create, who I am now.
And when I think about that, Ithink about how grateful I am
and that was a big aha howgrateful I am for all the lives
I've led, even the not so greattimes, even the times that I
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regret, even the times that werepainful, even the times that
were hurtful, even the sad times, even the lost times, even the
times of grief, even those times, because those times also
helped me to become who I amtoday.
I learned so many things how tobe resilient, how to be capable,
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how to love, how to know how tohave compassion and empathy for
others who went through or whoare going through things that I
went through and how I can help.
And so my big aha is saying andunderstanding and realizing how
thankful I am for all the livesthat I've lived.
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And so one of the things I didand maybe it's something you
might want to do is I wrote downsome of the times of my lives,
right, some of the lives thatyou've led, some of the lives
that I've led, I wrote down andyou can do that too and what are
the things that you aregrateful for in those times?
What are the things that maybewere painful, but later, as you
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look back on them, you realize,wow, I gained something from
that and what were the thingsthat you gained from that, and
then give gratitude for thosetimes.
Give gratitude for those stagesin your life, those lives that
you led, because they bring youwhere you are today, and that's
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a beautiful place, because ifyou're still here, you've got a
beautiful purpose and you may beliving your purpose.
You, you may be figuring outyour purpose, no matter what
stage of life you're in now.
Whatever life you're living now, it's a new time, it's a new
life, but all the past, good andbad, helped to get you here.
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Find gratitude for it, becausewe've all learned and gained
something from it.
All right, my husband issitting up at the upper patio,
so I'm going to run off and Iwill catch you later.
Bye-bye.
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